Thursday, 30 June 2016

But before I start... remember today is the last day that you can sign up with Stampin Up! and get the extra 2 stamp sets for free in your starter kit... so if you want up to £222 crafting supplies for £99 ... don't delay... go here and sign up now.... your big box of crafting goodies would be with you next week...

Want the new large alphabet dies? Go here and sign up now.... you can have the co-ordinating Letters For You stamps for free too! Plus another £41 of goods. Plus another stamp set for free... All for just £99.

Ok... Back to the cards... These are the ones where you grab a pack of Whisper White notecards and envelopes...spend a therapeutic 45 mins stamping with your Butterfly Basics & die cutting away with your Butterflies dies ... and end up with 20 cards ready to go... we like that!

And an apology for my ladies at the class today... I couldn't find my notecards & envelopes... hence why these were not included in the class! Oops...

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Thought I had better keep these Butterfly Basics samples all together... particularly as each one was demoed on the day of the class ... so I did end up making quite a lot of variants as I just had to finish them off......

These three are all the same apart from the addition of the butterflies and the Tip Top Taupe greeting used...

Interestingly I missed this greeting stamp in the new catalogue... luckily a few of my ladies pointed out the error in my ways!!! Bit of a go to stamp for me now.....

And a Tuesday Tip for you.... this last butterfly is die cut and then just watercoloured using the Aquapainter in Pool Party on the body and wings and then Mint Macaron on the tips of the wings... great inky fun! I then added a few Rhinestones Basics Jewels for a splash of shine on the wings and body....

Friday, 24 June 2016

Another couple of versions of the Tag Topper Concertina Card for you today...and seeing as it is Fancy Fold Friday... the recipe and metric/imperial (inches) tutorial(s) for you...

This is a remake of a fabulous card produced by Julie Kettlewell for our Quarterly Training over 2 years ago... but one that I have re-made a few times... as it is such a fabulous and special card and always causes a real WOW... Though I have to admit they do always look better in the flesh than on a photo... a card this long is difficult to photo!!

TIP - easiest if you use paper with no pattern match/directional pattern!!

But otherwise... think about the pattern direction you want to show on the front & back of your finished card eg for stripes ending up vertical on my finished project - I need to cut the 4" strips looking at horizontal stripes!)

5 Pick up the 3rd strip and turn 180degrees (so any pattern direction is facing the other way up) and score LIGHTLY every 6 1/2cm ( ie 6.5, 13, 19.5 and 26cm) OR every 2 1/2" ( ie 2 1/2", 5", 7 1/2" & 10") Sorry - no obvious pattern direction to see here!!!! But if you look closely to right and left of the strip you will see that it has been turned 180degrees.... so that the left has become the right...

See this alternative to the birthday greeting version I showed here... I love the add of the 2U.... Nicky was inspired with her solution to having stuck her lettered mats down (cough) differently!!! And thank you to Heidi for the Retirement version...

12. Place ribbon up through the punched hole on the left hand side, pull through over to the right and lay across the front. ( Tip - NOT through the right hand side punched hole)

13. Lay the LHS of the remaining ribbon across to the left, down & around the back and across to the right. Size as necessary (with bow allowance)
TIP - I personally find it easier to have the front & back ribbon lengths to be the same size off to the right... and then tie the bow and trim off as necessary... but you do cut off a few inches...

15. Decide how you want to have the final fold of your card... I usually leave as a double fold as shown here... but you can have as a single fold too (example here ) ... and then tie off to close & make a bow with your ribbon. Trim ribbon as necessary...

16. Pop in an envelope (Double Fold fits nice and snugly/protectively into a Stampin' Up! medium envelope or a standard C6 envelope is great if your ribbon bow has gone off to the side!) or make an envelope box (Tutorial here) for a Single Fold version

If you prefer a video tutorial to the Metric Tag Topper Concertina Card... Julie has kindly already shared one here...

Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Another version of the Wedding Card posted earlier in the week... same card, different Floral Boutique paper pattern and the addition of the Floral Phrases rose sprays at either end as Birthday only 8 letters whilst Wedding Day is 10...

The Recipe and Tutorial will be for my Fancy Fold Friday post this week (as it is now late at night and I have a few photos to take!!) ... but for today... as quite a few of you have asked... how I did the letters...

And an extra tip for you... Some letters (such as I) can be stamped in one.... as per my O example below... but have your pokey/piercing tool or tweezers or something to hand... as those letters will stick to the stamp... and you don't want inky fingers!!!

7. And there you have it... easy and subtly decorated die cut letters and numbers... pretty too!!

And in preparation for my Friday post... have your Scalloped Tag Topper punch and a piece of 12x12 paper ready to go... as well as your alphabet dies, Floral Phrases stamps, Night of Navy ink and Sahara Sand and Whisper White card...and co-ordinating ribbon......

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Covering UK Nationwide & local area of York Harrogate Boroughbridge Knaresborough Easingwold Wetherby. Postal: Townend Farmhouse, Main Street. Great Ouseburn.YO26 9RG., North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

An avid papercrafter and an independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. I run classes and workshops for Card making, Scrapbooking , Gifts & Packaging , Home Decor - in fact all things paper crafting- between Harrogate & York - near Boroughbridge, Easingwold, Thirsk, Ripon, Wetherby, Leeds in North Yorkshire. I have been papercrafting for more than 13 years and a Stampin' Up! demo for over 8 years.